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Originally posted by Food Eater Lad
The lies you can not explain away,
6 And the biggest lie, the whole blaming the Massacre at Columbine on the parents makeing WMD:
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Please post what the plant made and whether it sold any product to the Pentagon.
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Moore asks whether knowledge that weapons of "mass destruction" were being built nearby might have motivated the Columbine shooter.
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Are you claiming that Moore's question regarding the interviewee's opinion is a lie?
How can a question be a lie?
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"So you don't think our kids say to themselves, 'Dad goes off to the factory every day, he builds missiles of mass destruction. What's the difference between that mass destruction and the mass destruction over at Columbine High School?'"
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This is a question--your answer to the above questions will apply to this as well.
Is positing a hypothesis a lie? One usually posits a hypothesis and then attempts to determine if it is accurate or not--I've never heard anyone called a liar due to an incorrent hypothesis.
This is a statement regarding children's perceptions. Young children do not distinguish between rockets used for satellites or rockets used for weapons. They are viewing rockets used for WMD currently. That is the definition of a rocket to many children.
Older students might make the distinction between peaceful rockets and warfare rockets--but then they might not know or care that the government defense project in their neighborhood is conducting peaceful military production.
In light of what you are claiming regarding their background they might have felt justified in making a defense. And their culture, which justifies military action in defense and generally opposes offensive military excursions, seems to support such a conclusion.